Hymenopodinae is a
subfamily of the
mantis
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They ha ...
family
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Hymenopodidae
Hymenopodidae is a family of the order Mantodea (mantises), which contains six subfamilies. Some of the species in this family mimic flowers and are found camouflaged among them; these are called flower mantises. Their coloration is aggressive ...
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Tribes and genera
The ''Mantodea Species File'' lists genera in two
tribes
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Mantodea Species File (retrieved 10 January 2020)
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Anaxarchini
*'' Anaxarcha'' Stal, 1877
*''Euantissa
''Odontomantis'' is a genus of mantids in the family Hymenopodidae
Hymenopodidae is a family of the order Mantodea (mantises), which contains six subfamilies. Some of the species in this family mimic flowers and are found camouflaged among ...
'' Giglio-Tos, 1927
*''Heliomantis
''Heliomantis'' is an Asian genus of praying mantids in the family Hymenopodidae, subfamily Hymenopodinae. The genus is monotypic.
Species
The genus contains only one valid species:
* ''Heliomantis elegans'' ( Navás, 1904) (lectotype: NE India ...
'' Giglio-Tos, 1915
*'' Nemotha'' Wood-Mason, 1884
*'' Odontomantis'' Saussure, 1871
*'' Werneriana'' Shcherbakov, Ehrmann & Borer, 2016 - monotypic ''W. latipennis'' (Werner, 1930)
Hymenopodini
;subtribe Hymenopodina
*'' Helvia'' (Stal, 1877) (synonym: ''Parymenopus'' (Wood-Mason, 1890))
*'' Hymenopus'' (Serville, 1831)
*'' Theopropus'' (Saussure, 1898)
;subtribe Pseudocreobotrina
*'' Chlidonoptera'' (Karsch, 1892)
*'' Chloroharpax'' (Werner, 1908)
*'' Creobroter'' (Westwood, 1889)
*'' Panurgica'' (Karsch, 1896)
*'' Pseudocreobotra'' (Saussure, 1870)
Now placed in family Galinthiadidae
*'' Galinthias'' (Stal, 1877) (synonym '' Attalia'' (Uvarov, 1936))
*'' Harpagomantis'' (Kirby, 1899)
*'' Pseudoharpax'' (Saussure, 1870)
See also
*List of mantis genera and species
The following list of mantis genera and species is based on the "Mantodea Species File", which is the primary reference for the taxonomy shown here.
The insect Order (biology), order Mantodea consists of over 2,400 species of mantises in about 460 ...
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References
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Hymenopodidae
Mantodea subfamilies